Yeah this looks puzzling. If you completely turn off spring, how does it feel by itself? On the right side of the gimbal there is the grip cable (under the leather cover), it's possible it can twist on itself an give a springiness by the edge.
also, the new firmware seems to report a bunch of buttons and pov hats to windows that dont actually exist. I have the virpil alpha grip, and this is what it show as buttons i have available, and the blue items are what i've managed to actually press
also, if i have something like this for settings, will the adaptive spring centering now be enabled in games that apply springs? or is this only an affect related to stuff applied by the configurator app?
also, i totally could be hallucinating, but if i apply a spring affect in the configurator app, it does feel like it might be applying a bit differently, could totally just be placebo memes